Forum Pluses and Guidelines

[clay dube]

Hi Everyone,

This discussion forum is for participants in the 2004 study trip to China only. No one else has access to these posts. It's the perfect place to share ideas and questions and to recommend resources (e.g., websites, books, travel-related products).

Last year's group loved the discussion forum and continues to use it to share ideas, photos, and more.

Some of you may find it easier to participate if you activate "email tracking" for this forum. This means that when someone posts a message to the forum, you receive a copy of the message via email. If you want to respond to the message, simply click on link and post your response.

What are the advantages of the discussion forum?
-- all the messages are housed in one location
-- the messages are organized by topic
-- you can use the search function to find messages
-- you can upload images and documents which the user can decide whether or not to download (important for those using dial-in modems)
-- you can access this forum from any web-enabled computer (at home, work, library, on the road, in an internet cafe in China....)
-- if you've made a mistake in a message or want to add something, you can correct it via the edit function

Please keep the following in mind as you use the forum:

-- Please create new threads sparingly. This simplifies things for the reader. For example, let's try to keep all clothing/footwear related posts in the same place and not have 45 of our 50 threads wearing labels such as "easy to wash socks". To post in the same thread, use the new post button, not the new thread button.

-- Use your subject line to help readers. If you have socks to recommend, click on the clothing thread, then on new post, and put "the only socks I'll wear" or something else in the subject line.

-- If you have a more general "teaching about Asia" comment to make, it might be best to put it in the Asia in My Classroom, which is open to all teachers. You all have posting rights in that forum and in the public forums.

-- The formatting buttons (color, bold, italics, and web links) work in Internet Explorer, but not Mozilla or Netscape. You can still use color and make links clickable, but you need to insert html code yourself. I'll attach a short and simple list of codes that you can use.

If you have any problems using the board, please send me a note: mailto:[email protected].

Finally, let me know if you'd like to use a private discussion forum with your students. We'll be happy to set it up for you to use.

Smiling,
clay

[clay dube]

The attached guide is 8 pages long and has illustrations to help you use the forums. Click on the attachment icon to download it to your own computer.

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